Background to Danger (1943)

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genre

crime film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A neutral country becomes the setting for a spy conflict during World War II. An American man gets caught up in a dangerous plot involving secret documents and Russian operatives.

tensesuspensefulwartimefast-pacedshadowygrimpropagandisticmelodramatic

What happens

Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars George Raft with Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based on the 1937 novel Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, although William Faulkner and Daniel Fuchs also contributed. The film was designed to capitalize on the runaway success of Casablanca, which had also featured Lorre and Greenstreet. The Russian operative positively portrayed by Brenda Marshall shows an exaggerated degree of cooperation, and the film has a slight pro-Soviet bias akin to Warner Bros.' Mission to Moscow from the same year. Walsh called the film "a quickie". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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